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Wholesale Prices Tame as Fed Meets

WASHINGTON—U.S. wholesale prices fell in September, a new sign that inflation remains in check as the Federal Reserve considers its easy-money policies in a two-day meeting set to conclude Wednesday

The producer-price index, which measures how much companies pay for everything from footwear to computers, fell 0.1% in September from August, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The decline was primarily the result of an 18% decline in...